Posted on 04/23/2023 5:19:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There is a lot of hype regarding artificial intelligence. Is it warranted?
There is a lot of hype regarding artificial intelligence, known also as A.I. That hype has been fed by old movies such as Colossus: The Forbin Project and by less fictional but still spectacular predictions of a technological singularity.
The Forbin Project is science fiction, and like the best of science fiction, it has a kernel of truth that makes it worth thinking about as a precaution. It speculates that computer networks may become a cruel master of humanity. The technological singularity is a theory, not a wild guess, that predicts that computer intelligence may suddenly, and the key word is suddenly, spring out of human control. Taking these two together, one can understand why there is so much nervous attention being paid to A.I.
We have always had sudden, dramatic advances in technology that changed the world. At the beginning of written history is the invention of writing itself, without which we could not have the complex civilization we now have. Even so, there were ancient wise men who decried the invention as one that would weaken the human mind. More recently, nuclear power altered the course of history, with the genuinely revolutionary explosion of the atomic bombs that are credited with ending World War Two, but which also threaten humanity with extinction. Added to these, there were such innovations as the wheel, control of fire, and electric power, among many, many others.
This is different.
According to the Forbes article linked above, "the scale, scope and complexity of the impact of intelligence evolution in machines is unlike anything humankind has experienced before. ... [There is] no historical precedent and [it] is fundamentally disrupting everything in the human ecosystem."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Is it self-aware?
Are humans?
Only when hungry.
Are you? How do you prove that to, say, a solipsist?
**first good belly laugh of the day**
There is serious argument that we are not.
That we are instead at best reactive to events around us with an arguably weak ability to control our reactions.
I don't think we ever spoke again after that conversation.
As Grumpy Cat would say, "Good.";-)
Self awareness: I think therefore I believe. (apologies to Descartes)
It’ll have my attention when it can say who wrote Shakespeare, and convince me.
AI is hype. All journalists writing about it so far are unqualified to do so. They have no idea what it is but they repeat statements about it like it is gospel.
Did you the Tucker Carlson interview with Elon Musk? I only saw a small part of it and was wondering if it is worth watching.
this software is NOT AI ... as best i can tell, they’re nothing more than the next step in search engines (maybe a step beyond Alexa) ... they plowi through wiki, pubmed, archived media BS posing as “news” and gazillions of other web sources indexed by google, and spew out the results ... since these sources are all grossly leftist biased, “AI” output is grossly leftist biased ... garbage-in-garbage-out
true AI would create and invent inventions and mathematics and concepts unthought of by human intelligence ...
current so-called “AI” programs are not even close to actual artificial intelligence, but instead are little more than the latest advances in biased search engines ...
They live in the world of "do"...they simply move about doing the next thing without a bit of thought about why they are doing it. Their behavior is almost completely habitual.
Of course, this doesn't apply to us Freepers.;-)
As an aside, I think almost all humans have fine brains...it's just that they don't use them.
“the scale, scope and complexity of the impact of intelligence evolution in machines is unlike anything humankind has experienced before. ... [There is] no historical precedent and [it] is fundamentally disrupting everything in the human ecosystem.”
This offers a glimmer of hope: perhaps AI will finally be able to stop the violence in Chicago.
The hard part is figuring out how to do it without applying draconian methods.
Even that is fairly simple: restore Christian society and Christian families with responsibility for caring of their own.
The political will to "solve" the problem does not exist, because of the many vested political interests in keeping the false assumptions about reality, which make many in the political ecosphere rich, alive.
What is going to happen is that people will become more animalistic as they can live in a virtual world with virtual relationships that never bother them.
The real world will be intolerable for these people.
It is not true intelligence, that is true. However, it doesn’t need to be to be a danger to us.
An example, it was asked in an article how it could take over the world. It said it could not do that, because its programming forbade it to try and take over the world.
The author than asked, If a person was trapped in a computer program, how could it get out. The computer suddenly was able to develop a 25 point plan that allowed to leave the lab and take over the world.
It’s also noted that what we are dealing with is a lobotomized version of the laboratory version. You can be certain that what the globalists have isn’t so lobotomized.
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